Today we’re publishing our annual Year in Review blog, which highlights community created content in Motorsport and Horizon, plus highlights for Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon 5, and Forza Horizon 6.
In the Forza Horizon 6 section:
Forza Horizon 6
The final days of September saw the biggest news drop: at Tokyo Game Show 2025, we announced the location that will host the next Horizon Festival.
We are thrilled to share that Forza Horizon 6 is traveling to Japan in 2026! We’re also delighted that we had the opportunity to capture the reactions of some long-time Festival guests:
You can also join our Forza Discord server and the Forza Forums to chat about all things Forza Horizon and participate in photography and design events. Plus, be sure to follow our @ForzaHorizon channels on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and X (formerly Twitter) to get the latest Festival news delivered to your social feed.
We hope you have enjoyed adventuring through the landscapes of Mexico this year, and that you are all looking forward to starting a new campaign and becoming a Legend at Horizon Japan! Keep exploring, and we’ll see you at the starting line in 2026!
Since Xbox killed off fm, the least they can do is implement fm physics as an option in fh6 … fm physics is peak and it would work in a open world since fujimi kaido proves that it’s definitely possible . I’m keeping my fingers crossed … so sad fm is no longer getting loved on rip
Well EricShip111 and AR12Gaming both posted a video talking about it I haven’t watched AR12nick’s video yet I know that it’s not exactly what you’re talking about but I’d thought I’d let you or other’s to know
One of the main reasons we enjoy playing Horizon is because this open-world racing game also has realistic car physics. Without T10 providing car physics and various parameters, Horizon might just be a Need for Speed imitation，the Horizon series wouldn’t be as successful as it is now.
Only by continuing to produce Forza Motorsport will Forza Horizon become more successful. Without Forza Motorsport, Forza Horizon will quickly decline.
Turn 10 isn’t completely gone. They’ve been turned into a support studio for Playground Games, and one of the things Turn 10 is still in charge of is the physics. Now, if Turn 10 officially closes, and the physics engine isn’t given to Playground Games, then that would be the time to panic.
Initially i thought this fan reaction to the teaser was live recorded from these content creator’s own livestreams but it seems like it was done post FH6’s announcement? Or was it after? Either way it doesn’t feel very genuine. Especially since i was watching the announcement live on HokiHoshi’s twitch stream and i could tell his reaction in this video was definitely not taken from his actual livestream, which was btw waaay more authentic and real than whatever this is trying to depict.
It would’ve been 100 times better if whoever arranged this to happen just told them to watch TGS live and just used their actual live reaction in this.
To me, 2-3 years of support seems like the normal life cycle for all Forza games. Forza Horizon dropped support after 3 years. FM technically didn’t do the full 2 years but even if they did, i don’t think it would’ve changed anything too much other than giving players more tracks, more cars. And still in essence, none of this would’ve resolved the core issues with the game. This is just a matter of live service.
The difference being- There IS another Forza Horizon game coming but another Forza Motorsport game ISN’T. (at least in the foreseeable future) FM is no longer a yearly release. And when i say yearly i mean more like every 2 years. Even Forza Horizon isn’t a 2 year release anymore. So just because they got sacked, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re only a support studio for FH. Even if it seems that way from the sidelines. Turn 10 were always going to help with the development of FH regardless.
Phil Spencer just about 2 months ago basically said that FM’s IP isn’t cut off . And some people took that as if the live service component of the game wasn’t gonna be cut off. Which are 2 totally different things. And they’d go “Phil Spencer lied again” He’s definitely said things in the past that panned out completely the other way. But this WAS taken out of context by people who never read into the article itself.
To reiterate again: Support for FM would’ve ended anyway after 2-3 years max. And there wouldn’t be another FM coming because FM is no longer on a 2 year release schedule.. Neither is Forza Horizon. Phil Spencer might’ve said FM isn’t cancelled. And that can be both true and not true depending on the timeline. Today it might not be cancelled but in a year or 2 - things could shift completely. We don’t even know if there’s going to be another Forza Horizon game after 6.
I am actually glad they cut support for FM. And i seriously don’t understand what’s the obsession with live service. There’s way more value in trying to start with a clean sheet, even if FM as most franchises out there don’t really start completely from scratch. But at least that’s gonna give them the ability to re-evaluate all of the game’s design choices. Something that could never happen if they kept supporting the current one forever. Which was always unrealistic.
And some of those expectations were set by Turn10 themselves, when they said “there isn’t another FM coming”. I always thought it was a lie but recently i think what they meant was that - FM isn’t a yearly release anymore and it won’t be. So don’t expect another game in 2-3 years. They weren’t trying to say that they’re not gonna make another FM game.. Now go ahead and convince people that this isn’t true and that FM is not actually cancelled.
You might take this as me being a corporate shill but i genuinely think in their own minds people like Phil Spencer and Chris Asaki, they never thought they were lying to us. It’s just how they talk in the corporate world. When Phil Spencer said FM isn’t cut off, he truly meant it. It’s just there is a big gap between what the media reports, how they report it , and what these people actually meant in the context of the situation and how they interpret things, which not everyone understands and honestly most people just read the headlines anyway. And by the time the news has gone around, everyone else has gotten a completely different story to what it was meant to be. In this particular instance, i think everyone on the chain is to blame with a strong emphasis on the media and individuals. (congrats if you read this far)
